Yet on Monday, Trump's own wife did exactly what Trump and his surrogates have tried to crucify Hillary Clinton for: She called the now 11 women who have come forward to accuse Trump of assault liars in a sit-down interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper.

Melania Trump defends her husband in her first interview since leaked 2005 video, calling the accusations "lies

"This was all organized from the opposition and with the details that they go — did they ever — did they ever check the background of these women? They don't have any facts," Melania Trump told Cooper of the women who have accused her husband of groping or kissing them without consent.

She said the media unfairly and incorrectly questioned her immigration status after a nude photo shoot she did in the 1990s resurfaced, raising questions about whether she had the proper permissions to live and work in the United States at the time the pictures were taken.

"And suddenly becomes, I'm here illegally, I was married before," Trump said. "I said, like, yes, find me the husband that I was married before my husband. So, there were a lot of, you know, a lot of dishonest stuff, and that surprised me that they would not check the facts and that reporters will just write."

Yet while she complained about the media questioning her immigration status, she failed to leave out her husband's yearslong quest to prove President Barack Obama was not a U.S. citizen, a meritless claim that Trump continued to push even after Obama released his birth certificate.

Melania Trump also blamed the "left-wing media" for releasing the 2005 tape of her husband bragging about grabbing women "by the pussy" and kissing them without consent.

"It was left wing and, left-wing media," she told Cooper. "And you could see that and the way it comes out is everything was organized. Every Friday, every Friday, something comes out. So, they play, they play, they play. And it was hour after hour. I watched TV, was hour after hour bashing him because they want to influence the American people how to vote."

Melania Trump says the media and the Clintons are working together against her husband https://t.co/A8nRfdxtgZ

It's a similar line to the one Hillary Clinton has used, blaming the "vast right-wing conspiracy" she says has tried to take her and her husband down over the years.

To be sure, Donald Trump set his wife up for this hypocritical line of attack.

Not only did he leave her to do the interview alone, he's called his accusers liars and fame-seekers, and suggested they were too ugly for him to want to assault.

Trump vilifies @HillaryClinton for defending Bill &amp; makes Melania defend him on CNN. He has no sense of hypocrisy, logic, decency, shame.

Still, it doesn't excuse the fact that Melania Trump did exactly what her husband has attacked Hillary Clinton for.

So #Melania is on @CNN trashing her husband's accusers. That's Trumps argument against HRC: she attacked HER husband's accusers. smdh

And even bigger of a problem for the Trump's is that 68% of voters believe Trump has made "unwanted sexual advances on women."

68% of LVs in WaPo/ABC polls say Trump has probably made unwanted sexual advances on women. So that includes solid # of his supporters.

So far, it's unclear whether Melania's interview will change voters' perceptions of her husband and his treatment of women — but the hypocrisy is crystal clear.